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Pontus Pihlgren pontus at Update.UU.SE
Wed Oct 31 05:27:23 CDT 2018


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
> >
> >>Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> >
> >It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata instead of
> >a bunch of pretty pictures
> >
> >THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
> You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those
> "pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and
> you'll get a block of text that describes each one.
> 

It's very time consuming to browse through that though.

It would be nice if you could make the service more 
accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for 
each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you 
some bandwith as well.

/P


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